CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Two assistant prosecutors argue that a convicted murderer's challenge to the state's petition for a three-strikes sentencing enhancement should be denied, contending that Allen Leon Schaffer's prior Michigan convictions are applicable under West Virginia law.

Assistant prosecutors Brad Pustolski and Andrea Roberts filed a document in Harrison County Circuit Court stating that Schaffer's prior convictions in Michigan for cocaine possession, unlawful assault, a gun charge, and manslaughter can be used to meet the three-strikes threshold. The state is seeking the enhancement on Schaffer’s conviction for possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

Pustolski and Roberts assert that the Michigan cocaine possession is "substantially similar" to West Virginia's possession

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